Dozens of bright pink Nalgene-style plastic bottles are drifting through Marsh Creek, waiting to be found by visitors.
In April and May, Barbara Doll, a professor at N.C. State University and water protection and restoration specialist with the North Carolina Sea Grant, led a team of volunteers and researchers who dumped this litter into the creek — 40 bottles in total — for the sake of science. Doll is studying how litter moves through urban streams in North Carolina. The bottles will continually transmit their location, but feel free to pick one up should you find one.
“If they find the bottle, it’s got a message on it and it’s got a QR code that they can [scan to] log where they saw it and take a picture with the bottle,” Doll said…